unprofitably

Example Sentences

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“Like a lot of other businesses, you can run them as profitably as you want, or as unprofitably as you want,” Zook said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2023

Generally, chicken producers enter long-term contracts with meat companies that farmers say lock them into deals that fix their compensation at unprofitably low levels.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2021

He did in fact run a tuning shop, Ken Miles Unlimited in North Hollywood, happily but unprofitably until early 1963—when the IRS padlocked the business over unpaid taxes.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2019

After all, the company has raised millions in venture-capital funding, so couldn’t it just be doing what all venture-backed companies do—offering its services at an unprofitably low price to achieve huge market growth?

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2012

Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule The village master taught his little school.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt